The second visit of asteroid Apophis in 2036, also on April 13, heralds the coming of the Messiah and the beginning of a new ...

Asteroid (887) Alinda came closest to our planet on Wednesday, January 8, being the closest to Earth in decades and the last until 62 years from now (2087). Despite reaching its closest moment and ...

A mountain-sized asteroid will be visible from Earth this weekend in a "once in a decade" event. The massive space rock zoomed past Earth earlier this month, but it is not out of view just yet and ...

Larger than 99 per cent of known space rocks, the asteroid ranks among the five largest celestial objects expected to come within 15 billion kilometres of Earth from now until 2200. Jake Foster, a ...

Scientists were today warning of a possible asteroid collision with the Earth. An asteroid around two-thirds of a mile wide (1.2km) could hit the earth on March 21, 2014 and has been classified as ...

An asteroid bigger than Manhattan is heading towards the Earth and is large enough to be seen without the naked eye. The space rock - named (887) Alinda - has an estimated diameter of 4.2km ...

An asteroid larger than Manhattan is flying close by Earth. The space rock - named (887) Alinda - is so large it should be viewable with ordinary binoculars. With an estimated diameter of 4.2 km ...

Asteroid AB 2025 is set to make an astonishingly close approach to Earth, passing at a distance of just 1.2 million miles. This close encounter offers a unique opportunity to study the asteroid up ...

An asteroid the size of a school bus is heading ... that would cause significant regional damage if it hit the Earth," he said. "Not all NEOs are potentially hazardous, but all hazardous objects ...